Notes on the Geography of Singapore

There are two familiar ways to see Singapore: one, as a triumph of free enterprise, a place that has with hard work and clean government shot in a lifetime from fishing village to global city; the other, in the words of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge in The Fourth Revolution, 2014, as "Disneyland with the death penalty, paradise designed by McKinsey." There's merit in the accusation, but most Asians can only dream about having it so good.